The Serenitea Pot is a system in Genshin Affect that enables gamers to craft furnishings and construct their very own customized houses and landscapes. Gamers have give you loads of lavish builds, however if you happen to take issues too far, you possibly can fully disable your furnishings crafting operate altogether.

Reddit person u/Enmityaz discovered this out the exhausting manner. They’ve been on a years-long grind crafting increasingly more Pine Folding Screens till the sport itself finally informed them, “no extra.”

How did this occur?

When the Serenitea Pot operate first launched in Genshin Affect, this specific piece of furnishings was probably the most useful resource and space-efficient solution to receive probably the most factors. Gamers who needed to maximise their teapot factors rapidly discovered that crafting dozens of Pine Folding Screens and packing them into neat rows was one of the best ways to min-max this in any other case enjoyable sport mode. This follow is known as crypto mining inside the group, since a roomful of screens seems to be quite a bit like rows and rows of crypto mining rigs.

When most gamers reached the factors threshold the place they unlocked all significant rewards, they stopped crafting further screens. However not Enmityaz. That they had a objective, a imaginative and prescient. Let the opposite gamers have their fancy mansions and sizzling tubs. Enmityaz would have screens upon screens — nothing however a sea of superb Pine Folding Screens so far as the sport may render.

So that they saved crafting. Every display screen takes 16 real-life hours to craft, and you’ll solely craft 5 of them at a time. There are some methods to hurry up crafting, however this may nonetheless be a painfully lengthy endeavor.

They quickly ran out of area of their teapot, however continued to hoard screens of their stock. They posted updates to Reddit after they reached 3,334 screens. Then 8,002. Lastly, in October 2023, they posted the fantastic ultimate replace: 9,999 Pine Folding Screens, absolutely the most that Genshin Affect permits of their stock.

However they wanted extra. Curious and decided, they stuffed up their 5 furnishings crafting slots with 5 extra Pine Folding Screens. After the 16-hour crafting time, they got here again to gather the completed furnishings.

Besides the sport wouldn’t allow them to. Their stock was full on this specific merchandise. Oops. The crafting slots couldn’t be cleared with out claiming the completed screens, however furnishings can’t be deleted from the stock both. Stalemate. Enmityaz can not craft something of their Serenitea Pot, folding display screen or in any other case. Their furnishings crafting operate is nearly as good as bricked.

Can it’s mounted?

As one does when encountering an in-game difficulty, Enmityaz contacted buyer assist. Hours later, they obtained a response to the impact of, “Your stock shouldn’t be limitless, that’s why you’re not in a position to acquire the following furnishings.” Properly, we already knew that. That’s not useful. There hasn’t been one other follow-up since.

Hopefully, HoYoverse is in a position to determine an answer to this predicament. I truthfully don’t blame the builders for this design oversight. I doubt that every other participant has ever reached 9,999 of the identical furnishings, and builders most likely by no means even thought of the likelihood. Who knew somebody could be keen to spend years crafting the identical merchandise over and over?

Realistically, it appears the answer could be to provide gamers a solution to destroy crafted gadgets with out claiming them. It appears Enmityaz would like another manner to proceed hoarding although.

Till an answer is carried out, Enmityaz is caught with a damaged teapot, unable to craft something new.

However why although?

All this leaves me questioning…why? Why embark on this years-long journey of crafting nothing however Pine Folding Screens? When one other person requested this query, Enmityaz replied:

“When teapot got here out, these had been unlocked by default and had been price loads of Adeptal Power, so folks crafted a great deal of this to allow them to max out the Serenitea cash ASAP. Once I was completed, I had 80 of those. 80 was sufficient for me to contemplate going for 9,999.”

-u/Enmityaz

…Which boils right down to, “simply because.” And truthfully? I aspire to this stage of dedication. We may all study one thing from Enmityaz. What that lesson is, I don’t know, however there’s one thing to be discovered right here.